To Examine the one Sided Relationship Between Human Beings and Nature

To Examen the One-Sided Relationship Between Human Beings and Nature.

This essay explores the contradicting nature of humans and nature. It develops how nature is discreetly making amending the lives of humans while the humans are on the path of destruction of their own creator.

The poems 'Flower Fed buffaloes' by Vachel Lindsay and 'Amends' by Adrienne Rich themes are at variance, but share a common themes of relationship of nature with humans and the surroundings.

As per Flower Fed Buffaloes, it deals with the comparison between the past and present and the vice of man. While Amends deals with the journey of the moon, These poems show a contradicting nature of human beings and nature.

In the poem 'Flower Fed Buffaloes', Vachel Lindsay tries to emphasize on the result of human activities on it's surroundings. The title 'Flower Fed Buffaloes', itself plays a significant role in developing the theme of the poem. "Flower Fed", the buffaloes representing nature as happy, peaceful and cheerful, with no harm intended to the anyone.

The tone of the poem alternates, between when the poet is reminiscing about the past, the tone is happy "The tossing, blooming, perfumed grass" while for the present he uses an unhappy, grieving tone, "Left us long ago".

Moreover, the poet contrasts between the past and present using imagery as his main tool. "The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring In the days of long ago" "Ranged where the locomotives sing" reminiscing on the past by using contradicting imagery to emphasize on the fact that the "Flower-Fed Buffaloes" have now been replaced by singing "Locomotives" also emphasizing on the mechanical intrusion by trying to produce an aural imagery of the machines churning, the steam given out by the factories creating an image of the destruction and of some might say is it's creator. Moreover he uses visual imagery and smell, "The tossing, blooming, perfumed grass" to help create a sweet aromatic mood, showing how the Prairies were once clean and fresh but now is "Swept away" by the crops grown there focusing on how it was forcefully intruded by man.

Furthermore, the poet uses alliteration for emphasis on the "Wheels and wheels and wheels spin by" by repeating the word "wheels" to create an emphasis on industrialization and contradict between what the prairies used to be like, fresh with perfumed grass" and what it is now, an accumulation on machines. Again bringing out the element of past against present. "The spring that still is sweet" refers to the slow death of the Prairies, how it is helpless, but there is still a glimpse of hope. It almost proves as a cry for help, the poet is trying to put forward the message his message of how the the s

The sensation of hurt and is brought back in the ending stanza, "They gore no more, They bellow no more" as gore and bellow referring to the killing of the buffaloes, also "They Trundle around the hills no more", as if to indicate to the destruction process of nature, its slow death, the punctuation is used here is to create a stress on the extinction of these harmless creatures. Moreover the poet uses a rhyme scheme in these lines of "aa bb"